torek, 22. april 2014

Chocolate granola / Čokoladna granola

Cooking & baking caused me body injuries. Seriously, has anyone had any idea that cooking can be a total opposite of relaxing? In fact, sometimes it’s even stressful! And dangerous! And those who don’t like cooking, agrees with me anyway that sometimes cooking is also annoying =). My opinion is that cooking is annoying in cases where you don’t have enough time ... or ideas ... or you’re in a bad mood ... and yes, if you've never seriously learn how to cook, then your cooking skills are probably not that amazing and because of this cooking makes you feel like a total loser, which makes you sad and then you simply HATE COOKING! And frozen lasagna from the store is fine, right? =)

I perfectly understand you. It seems to me that the most dreadful daily question is: '' What should I cook today? I have no idea! ''. I will share a secret with you ... I know the secret trick that will resolve this problem. Ready?

R e c i p e s. This is a wonderful word that immediately solves everything. You don’t need to be so creative, you don’t even need to think that much . Just sit down, find recipes on the Internet or in cookbooks and stick with the program!

My body injuries? I baked donuts in February. For the first time in my life and I did not succeed! I In my first attempt I used a recipe from the U.S. . Unsuccessfully. Then I used a Slovenian recipe. Again, I did something wrong and donuts were once again too flat and damn it, only one of them had that golden ring, which is the goal, when you make donuts. I don’t like frying. Hot oil spraying all around is like the scene of horror. At least for me. I knew it right from the start, that I will burn myself with hot oil. I knew it! When I flipped a donut during frying, of course, it fell and oil splashed ... on me. Of course. And now I have a 5cm long scar on the lower site of my abdomen. I just measured it, the length is 100% the truth.

I can blame this chocolate granola for another unfortunate thing, that happened to me. Well, the recipe was not the cause. First of all I have to say that I love glass containers for the storage of cereal, pasta, flour ..... This one, that you see in these photos is really cute. But it has one error. It is almost impossible to open it! I had to be really careful, when I was pulling apart the cover, so I wouldn’t shake it too much and threw everything on the floor. And I did! Just before I wanted to take pics for my blog. Luckily, I only lost about 2cm of granola. The mess that was created ... ah, I am at a loss for words. Imagine granola scattered all over the kitchen. I don’t know why, but I always have such a mess when I take pictures. I'm always looking things, napkins, decor, ... everywhere you look, you see a mess. Oh ! The injury! Last week, like every morning I pulled apart this unfortunate cover. In doing so, the container hit the kitchen counter with the bottom and the container broke, of course. Shard of glass got stuck in my finger and instead of enjoying eating chocolate granola, I had to pull the glass out with tweezers and I almost puked because of blood. Fortunately the container was almost empty, I think I would go crazy if I had to throw away the container and entire granola. Unfortunately, I had to throw everything in the trash because I didn’t want to eat glass.

The recipe is perfect. This was my first time of making a homemade chocolate granola. Usually, I don’t eat chocolate for breakfast but this was an exception and sometimes you have to make an exemption in life. Imagine chocolate granola with yoghurt and a banana .. or strawberries ... raspberries ... blueberries . I ate it like this for breakfast and I enjoyed immensely.

Place the oats equally on a baking tray covered with a baking paper and bake for 15 minutes. After this time bake for another 10 minutes, but mix oats from time to time, so it won’t burn. When your granola is ready take the tray out of the oven, spread chopped chocolate on it (it will melt as granola is hot) and let everything cool down. When your granola achieves a room temperature , place it in a jar or a bag.

Chocolate granola! Oh em gee I need to try this with some vanilla yoghurt! I'm also pretty chaotic in the kitchen when baking or cooking. And I hate cleaning up afterwards, like seriously hate because I always make so, so much mess lol. I baked a pear tart for Easter and my pastry shrunk because I didn't blind bake it properly then after I added the filling and baked it I didn't let it sit long enough in the pan to cool down and went to turn it onto a plate, though wasn't holding it securely and half of it ended up on the floor. Sigh. Sometimes I really hate baking!